Vital Images Inc. recently introduced the VioSuite Image Management and Vitality Solutions Business Intelligence product families, providing healthcare administrators with a robust set of tools to improve system-wide image access and image data analytics. VioSuite and Vitality Solutions, as well as the company’s flagship products VitreaAdvanced and VitreaView software, were showcased at the 9th annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Asia Pacific Conference and Exhibition.

September 14, 2015 — A new decision rule will help emergency department physicians determine when to use radiography in young children with minor head injuries. The Canadian-developed rule is published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).

Eizo announced it is now offering a white cabinet option for three FlexScan monitors with ultra-slim bezels.

ImaginAb Inc. has released interim results from a Phase 2 clinical trial of IAB2M, the company's proprietary imaging agent for management of prostate cancer. IAB2M demonstrated superior performance in detecting disease compared with ProstaScint and conventional imaging technologies including computed tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and bone scans. In addition, the agent accurately detected metastatic disease in normal-sized lymph nodes, overcoming a major limitation of existing technologies and addressing a key clinical need.

The widespread practice of incentivizing mammogram completion via cash payments, typically by insurance companies, is unethical according to a Viewpoint article published recently in JAMA by an expert from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Instead, incentives should be offered to women to use evidence-based decision aids to decide if they want a mammogram, even if this policy likely averts fewer breast cancer deaths overall.

September 14, 2015 — University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) researcher Vladimir Zharov, Ph.D., D.Sc., was awarded a $1.7 million grant by the National Cancer Institute for clinical testing of a new technology called theranostics, indicated for early diagnosis and treatment of melanoma.

Mevion's proton therapy system.

The use of radiation therapy to treat cancer has been in existence for over a century, tracing back to the early days of Wilhelm Röntgen and his discovery of X-rays. Reportedly — and not without controversy — one of the first Americans to use X-ray radiation to experimentally treat cancer was Chicago homeopathic physician and chemist Emil Grubbe.
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